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No it's not. Even if you're the best defensive driver in the world a seatbelt might still save you if someone plows into you while you're stopped at a red light
by avar 3y ago
No it's not. Even if you're the best defensive driver in the world a seatbelt might still save you if someone plows into you while you're stopped at a red light.
- cm2187 3y agoBut again, it's your life, your body, your choice.
- avar 3y agoYou can make an argument against seatbelts on that basis, but it's not the one I'm making here. I think seatbelts should be mandatory, but don't think it's sensible to mandate complex and expensive technical solutions for table saws, when safe work practices can also mitigate them entirely.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoSafe work practices require humans to follow through on using them. Safety features don't.
- badgersnake 3y agoNot if you’re sat in the back and in a crash fly forward and kill the person in front of you.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoLibertarians often have this problem where their ideas that work just fine in a perfectly friction-less plane with zero deviance have issues when encountering reality. The instances are too numerous to name.
- sham1 2y agoLibertarianism, like any other such utopic ideology, has this problem. The ideology requires disregarding reality and assuming the frictionless plane, because otherwise it just wouldn't work properly. When ideals and reality go against each other, reality has a nasty habit of winning. And honestly, if seatbelts and table saws that don't cut your fingers off are such an authoritarian affront to one's freedom and personal responsibility, then so be it. Civil disobedience is always an option to those who absolutely hate this idea, but then they should take their "personal responsibility" and "bodily autonomy" and not be shocked if they have to face the consequences.
- sokoloff 3y agoIn a private car, do I really need a law to cover that case? On public transport (a place where such mandates generally do not exist), I could see the argument because it’s standardizing behavior amongst strangers. But in my own car, I have no problem telling people to buckle up or GTFO (or not, by my own choice). If I allow them to ride unbuckled, I’m voluntarily taking the risk one will try to go through the windshield via my noggin.
- badgersnake 2y agoA good proportion of people will take the chance rather than get into a long debate with a libertarian bore.